Enid Blyton Children Quotations

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

Well, you know what grown-ups are,' said Dinah. 'They don't think the same way as we do. I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them - but let's hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we're men and women.